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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 1604216" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>Your experience is similar to mine (except I don't take the Metformin). See signature for details.</p><p></p><p>Many members on this forum will advise having a meter. They are having a lot of success "eating to the meter" which gives them a really good idea which foods "spike" their glucose, and which foods are OK.</p><p></p><p>Others (perhaps a minority on this forum?) have chosen to do without the meter. This is also the advice conventionally given by doctors to "well-controlled" T2s, although I am not saying it should necessarily be accepted just because it comes from On High.</p><p></p><p>I don't use a meter. I just have an HbA1C test done at the clinic every three months. It seems to work fine for me. Note however that the A1C only measures <em>average</em> BG levels over a period of two-three months. So in my case, it is quite possible that this average is masking large daily spikes. These spikes may be dangerous for your health in their own right, even if (on average) your BG levels are good in the medium term, as measured by A1C.</p><p></p><p>The scientific evidence on this crucial point is unclear, as far as I can tell. There is a separate thread about this: <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/are-occasional-bgl-spikes-a-problem.128455/" target="_blank">http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/are-occasional-bgl-spikes-a-problem.128455/</a>.</p><p></p><p>So going without a meter is a calculated risk. I chose to take that risk, but fully understand why others would prefer not to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 1604216, member: 438800"] Your experience is similar to mine (except I don't take the Metformin). See signature for details. Many members on this forum will advise having a meter. They are having a lot of success "eating to the meter" which gives them a really good idea which foods "spike" their glucose, and which foods are OK. Others (perhaps a minority on this forum?) have chosen to do without the meter. This is also the advice conventionally given by doctors to "well-controlled" T2s, although I am not saying it should necessarily be accepted just because it comes from On High. I don't use a meter. I just have an HbA1C test done at the clinic every three months. It seems to work fine for me. Note however that the A1C only measures [I]average[/I] BG levels over a period of two-three months. So in my case, it is quite possible that this average is masking large daily spikes. These spikes may be dangerous for your health in their own right, even if (on average) your BG levels are good in the medium term, as measured by A1C. The scientific evidence on this crucial point is unclear, as far as I can tell. There is a separate thread about this: [URL]http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/are-occasional-bgl-spikes-a-problem.128455/[/URL]. So going without a meter is a calculated risk. I chose to take that risk, but fully understand why others would prefer not to. [/QUOTE]
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